WEST END: Blue Duck Tavern Unveils A New Collection of Fall Cocktails

Guests can usher in autumn with craft spirits prepared two ways, with Blue Duck Tavern's exclusive “Untitled Cocktail Series”

Hot Toddy

Blue Duck Lounge and Blue Duck Tavern at Park Hyatt Washington, located at 24th and M Streets, NW, have unveiled a collection of new spiced cocktails just in time for the cool Autumn weather.  Guests can look forward to handcrafted libations showcasing a variety of seasonal herbs and fruits, spices, and house-made infusions. 

Ladybird

Blue Duck Tavern and Blue Duck Lounge will feature 10 new cocktails, highlighting popular spirits two ways, shaken, or stirred, including tequila, rum, vodka, gin, and rye. 

The Oak Park

Additionally guests can enjoy Blue Duck Tavern and Lounge's new “Untitled Cocktail Series” featuring One Eight Distilling's Untitled #1 Gin, barrel-aged with piquant flavors of juniper and spice bush, Untitled #2 Whiskey, a Tennessee sour mash straight whiskey blended and finished in an Oloroso sherry cask, and Untitled #7 Whiskey, their first cask strength release with a blend of whiskeys finished in port and cognac casks. 

Guests can anticipate new autumn-inspired Tequila cocktails such as roasted apple infused Ocho Reposado tequila stirred with cinnamon infused mezcal, yellow chartreuse, and jalapeno bitters, or roasted apple-infused Ocho Reposado tequila shaken with yuzu, jalapeno bitters, rosemary shrub, and honey simple syrup.  Featured Rum cocktails include coconut-washed Cruzan rum stirred with Ron Zacapa, pumpkin bitters, and clove simple syrup, or house-spiced rhum shaken with pumpkin simple syrup, house coconut milk, and pumpkin bitters.  Featured Vodka cocktails include brown butter- washed Barr Hill vodka stirred with sage infused Cocchi Americano, cranberry bitter, and Giffard ginger, or cranberry-infused Belvedere Black shaken with Giffard ginger liqueur, brown butter simple syrup, lime juice, and sage.  Gin cocktails include house-infused fig gin, stirred with Dolin dry, plum bitters, Byrrh, Luxardo, and orange bitters, or house-infused fig gin shaken with plum simple syrup, lemon juice, and champagne, and Rye cocktails include Copper Fox rye stirred with mulled yuzu bitters, Averna, and Bonal, or Rittenhouse Rye shaken with yuzu, mulled wine, simple syrup, and egg white.  All fall cocktails are priced at $15 each.

Guests can also enjoy Blue Duck Lounges's exclusive “Untitled Cocktail Series”featuring Washington DC's One Eight Distilling's unique line of “Untitled” spirits.

Guests can enjoy Untitled #1 Gin, a black cocktail made with smoke, lemon-rosemary bitters, and a house mix of Crème de Noyaux, Luxardo Angioletto (Hazelnut Liqueur), and crème de cacao, served neat; 

Untitled #2 Whiskey, made with corn silk, sumac, saffron bitters, and Inniskillin air, served on the rocks, and; 

Untitled #7 Whiskey, made with Cynar, white pepper syrup, and mint tincture, served over crushed ice.  Each cocktail is priced at $20 each.

Those seeking a non-alcoholic refreshment can opt for Blue Duck’s seasonal “mock-tails” like The Kalorama is made from a combination of weekly rotating seasonal shrub, lime cordial and club soda, or The Mule with seasonal jam and ginger beer, priced at $9.

Blue Duck Tavern

Located in the Park Hyatt Washington, at the corner of 24 and M Streets, NW

Reservations for Blue Duck Tavern may be made by calling 202 419 6755 or 
by visiting www.blueducktavern.com.